* Graphics problems (No 3D background in menu, blue non-texturized units and other glitches) launch with the command below. You can also add this option to the .desktop entry in ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/StarCraft II

<pre>force_s3tc_enable=true wine StarCraft II.exe</pre>

<pre>force_s3tc_enable=true wine StarCraft II.exe</pre>

* If updates don't seem to work at all try to apply them manually. You can download European version patches here: http://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/starcraft-ii-patch-information. Check the bottom of that page for other regions. Then you execute the patch with wine.

* If updates don't seem to work at all try to apply them manually. You can download European version patches here: http://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/starcraft-ii-patch-information. Check the bottom of that page for other regions. Then you execute the patch with wine.

* Be sure to have libjpeg6 installed. Otherwise, the updater won't work.

* Be sure to have libjpeg6 installed. Otherwise, the updater won't work.

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* Flickering lights emitted from SCV's thrusters and other light sources (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsaEd-dTAlQ) may be because of missing registry entries:

Blizzard Downloader

You may want to go to View -> Preferences and check "Don't throttle background download".

During the install, you will need about twice the space of the installed game, since it downloads to a temporary directory (of your choice) before installing. This directory can be deleted after install.

Playing StarCraft II

(Or use the Starcraft II icon, but that'll make it more difficult to troubleshoot in case you have problems.)

Hints for Performance Tuning

CTRL+ALT+F shows FPS

Launching the game with the -opengl flag has been reported to increase performance. (This may be specific to the mac version.)

Disabling Shader in wine could help, if FPS is too low. (It may also cause the game to not work at all. Again, possibly only mac.)

Make sure that you are not using old graphics drivers. Nvidia drivers should be 256.35 or later (extra/nvidia is up to date).

Edit the variables.txt in your My Documents/Starcraft II/ following the guide here

x86_64

If you are running a 64bit version of Arch Linux, you may have trouble getting the updating done. Since StarCraft 2 uses Internet Explorer to render all the HTML pages, you need to have Internet Explorer installed. However, by the installer of IE6 will warn you that 64bit is not supported. By default, if you have created your wine configuration directory (~/.wine), it will be set to 64 bit. To overcome this problem, you can either recreate your ~/.wine configuration, or if you wish to keep your current ~/.wine configuration see the alternative method below. If you wish to recreate your ~/.wine configuration simply remove the ~/.wine directory, add export WINEARCH="win32" to your ~/.bashrc, logout of X, login once again and launch wine. It should create a ~/.wine folder. Next install ie6 with

This method uses a separate wine directory installed as 32bit. So the first step is to setup this alternate wine configuratoin. The easiest way to do this is to install a wine configuration for a separate user. You do not need to logout for this, just open up your terminal of choice and:

$ login alternateuser

or if you're going to use root:

$ su

Enter password, remove any already existing wine configuration supposing you do not use wine from this user, then set wine to use 32bit architecture and generate the configuration:

$ export WINEARCH="win32"

$ winecfg

Install/update the wine configuration. No other settings need to be set after updating so you can just close the wine configuration window. Then use winetricks to install ie6:

$ winetricks ie6

When that's done, use the new configuration to run Starcraft II.exe from your user's 64bit /home/user/.wine directory where Starcraft 2 is installed:

This will run the updater/patcher installing all the patch files to your 64bit ~/.wine directory using the alternate user's 32bit .wine directory containing ie6. Close the updater when it's finished and you can then remove the new 32bit .wine configuration or keep it for later updates. Now you can go back to playing from your regular user using 64bit wine.

Patch 1.5.0

Intel HD Graphics 3000 have increased stability and gained around 10FPS, however you have to set

$ wine regedit

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D
VideoMemorySize 128

Otherwise it won't run and will exit with errors about too low video VRAM.

For some, the game crashes upon exit. (There seems to be more issues with ati cards than nvidia.)

For some, in-gamechange of resolution does not work. Editing 'width=x' and 'height=y' in Variables.txt in My Documents/Starcraft II solves this issue. Replace x and y with the prefered resolution.

Graphics problems (No 3D background in menu, blue non-texturized units and other glitches) launch with the command below. You can also add this option to the .desktop entry in ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/StarCraft II